Nice writeup from Russ Cox on the (incredibly long) timeline of the XZ backdoor
Fascinating—and terrifying. Cox includes a solid list of Further Reading links at the end of his post.
Everything accelerated, again, in Nov-Dec-Jan. Lots of people are noticing.
MCP Apps bring your custom UIs inside Claude. I built 4 and share what I learned: how they relate to MCPs and skills, rules of thumb, and more.
I built an MCP that lets Claude see its own Excalidraw diagrams, iterate on them, and save them to Obsidian.
Peter Steinberger's move to OpenAI marks the end of the saga; or Part 1 anyway.
